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"The American Missionaries"

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Pizza house

Week 61, October 8, 2010

Hello family, how are you all doing on this wonderful weekend! Thanks so much for all of your wonderful emails, I sure love hearing from you all! So thanks again!

So FAM, what an amazing weekend wasn’t it! We had the chance to hear the wonderful words of the prophets and the apostles and receive the guidance of the Lord that was instantly passed through them! There is no doubt in my mind that the members and the world heard exactly what the Lord wanted them to hear, and surprisingly, it seam like the world is pretty wicked at this moment ha…

I don’t know if you guys understood it the same way I did, but there seemed to be a lot of warning and advice about transgression and sin! How we all need to believe and follow the words and the counsels of the living prophet of our days, Thomas S. Monson and we need to act and all need to prepare to serve missions!!! Both men, and women if they would choose, along with elderly couples when circumstances shall give a chance. And how do we do that… it was given sooo clearly… stay away from the filthiness of the world (drugs and gambling, pornography and many other sinful worldly gratification) and give head to the guidance of the Holy Ghost in our life. I absolutely love it when it was said actually “warned” by Elder Bednar, the Holy Ghost literally avoids our presence when we are part of these sinful acts. And I believe living without the Holy Ghost in our lives, we are walking blind in a world of Lucifer’s obstacles, which can so easy push us off the path of God!

Ahhh it passed so fast (conference that is). Hearing the tabernacle choir, feeling the love of the leaders of the church who care so much for us! I believe they understand the plan of our God so deeply that they would do anything they could to pull us back to the presence of our God, to partake of the blessings that are waiting for us. We have at this point in our lives tasted just 1/100000000000000000000000000000000000000000% of the possible blessing, which we could have. Think about the life we could and will have in the presence of God in the Celestial Kingdom! These blessings, which will be shared with an eternal family. This is the ultimate goal of life on earth. It's what we should be aiming for… we need to forget the worldly things and start thinking of what really is important!

The world better have learned because it was truly was passed super clearly and strongly, that we all need to stop being strapped down by whatever addiction we have and need to repent and listen to the prophet! The Lord can and will free those who are addicted, we can all be saved through the atoning sacrifice of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! Just believe and trust in His guidance through is Prophet and apostles and we can’t be lead astray!

I just can't stop thinking of conference it was just amazing

But other than that, the work here in the office and in the field is going good. We took so many people to conference and their questions were answered and we are trying to find more every day! The center is starting to be a little difficult to find new investigators because it’s mostly all apartments where you can't enter without a key to two doors so we have to just relay on faith and guidance of the Lord! But there is now doubt that He will lead us to the people waiting to here the truth!

This next week is the last week in the transfer so I'll be finding out what’s going to happen... if I will stay or not... we will see.... ha-ha. Its gong to be interesting. But we are getting some Americans this next week from the U.S. so that means a lot more work for me. And the work in the field just continues!!

I'm so grateful for this gospel and the for the guidance that we have in our lives through the words of the prophets and the Holy Ghost!! Without the gospel there is no doubt in my mind that the world would be lost and I life would be without a purpose! But with the guidance of the prophet and with the scriptures we know that our life here on Earth is a preparation to return and live with our Father in Heaven again, and this is something that everyone obviously wants!! So act today, listen to the prophets, believe in the prophet Thomas S. Monson and the 12 Apostles, and flee from all temptation... quite frankly it’s the only way back

I love you all so much and I'm so grateful for this gospel and for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the kingdom of God here on Earth! I'm so grateful for my family! Hugs and kissed to you all

Got to go but thank for everything and until next week!

Your son, brother, grandson, and missionary

Elder Wiscomb

D and C 1:30




Week 60, October 2, 2010

Hello family! How is everyone doing on this start of a fabulous conference weekend! I know that this is going to be a weekend to remember! Ahh I'm so excited! I would just like to say first off thanks so much to all of you guys for writing me and sending me pictures and stuff! You guys are all amazing!

So to be honest this week has just been full of conferences! And it has passed by soooo fast I truly haven’t even seen it. So like you guys have known, we had zone conference this week on Wednesday and Thursday! It was some amazing days! We learned about so much. How it worked is for two days we did this. We had doctrine learning from 8:30 to 12, then lunch until 1:30 and then the rest of the day is more doctrine learning until 5:30!

We talked about a whole bunch of stuff. About tomorrow, the first resurrection, and who is going to be apart of it, the kingdoms of God, repentance, and many other deep learning! Ahh, it was awesome and to be honest it quite blew my mind away! I love the feeling after we leave zone conference though it just feels like you want to be out and work, work, work, ha. It was some special days and now I am looking forward to something that is going to be amazing as well! General conference!

General conference! What a great time it is! The time when we get to hear the prophet of our Heavenly Father speak, along with the 12 Apostles and the other leaders of the Church! We are going to hear the inspiring words, which are from the Lord which will be passed through His servants here on Earth! I love teaching about conference and what a great opportunity it is.

First of all we need to think of something. Would we let the chance pass if we had the opportunity to hear our Heavenly Father Speak to us. Of course we wouldn’t ever let that chance pass, at least I would hope that NO one would. For those who have said no, that they would wouldn’t let that chance pass, you can’t let this conference pass without hearing ever word, then, applying it in your life… conference is no other than the Lord inspiring his special and holy representatives, here on Earth with his (the Lords) desires, His words, and counsels which He so deeply wants to give to us!

During these next couple days, many questions will be answered, many topics will be clarified, many important aspects will be passed to Gods children here on Earth, and many, many people will receive a growth in their testimony and some, many, will be converted to know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the kingdom of God here on Earth. If you listen closely, you will known that everything that is said is true. And the Holy Ghost will make it known unto us!

I am so grateful for this weekend! I hope all of you are ready! Write questions; think of things you want to know, listen with a willing heart and take notes because it will be something to remember!

The work here in the office and in the mission is going just splendidly! We are working hard and are having great success, thanks to the Lord. I am so grateful for this time is my life and for the chance I have to serve the Lord, my God during this time! This time is so short but it truly is the most rewarding time I have ever had!

This is short but I don’t have much time I love you all! I hope that you guys have a great weekend up at the cabin and you guys know that I will be watching everything with you! Just think about it ha, I'm going to be practically sitting by your side’s hahaha.

I love you all so much and never forget that! Thanks for everything.

Your son, brother, grandson and missionary

Elder Wiscomb

"The 'Big House' where I have been living"

"My desk"

"My room"

"Our Zone"

"Let's go fly a kite up to the highest height."

"Meet John Baptista Hahahahahah"

"The dog just licked my face!"

Week 59, September 26, 2010

Hello family! How is everyone doing on this fabulous day? I hope all is well. You guys all sound so great in your emails and thanks so much for every one of them! So about my week

What a crazy week. So the week started off amazing. Sunday morning we got up and we were on the bus on our way to church, and a family enters the bus. We were thinking that they were less actives that just decided to come back. We get to church and we were told that it’s a family that is getting to know the church for the first time. The Lord just placed a family in our hands! We have talked to them and there are some things that need to get done first. But they loved church and in the future they are going to get baptized! Maybe it’s not is in my time here, but soon enough they will be!!

Also in church I had an amazing experience… sitting there during sacrament meeting when they are releasing and calling new calling, I am just listening there and all of a sudden they call Silvio and Nueza!!!!! I looked at them as they stand (all smiling and proud and happy) and then the following words come. That Silvio was found worthy to receive the Aaronic priesthood, and that Nueza is the new counselor in the relief society!! Ahh I was so happy and grateful to my Heavenly Father for them that I’ll be quite honest, I couldn’t hold the tears of joy from running down my face. What a great surprise! They said they wanted to surprise me and they sure did!

And in this sacrament we had another surprise… President and Sister decided to come to our sacrament meeting and we have about 4 to 6 investigators about ever week but this one we just happened to have 10 investigators! President was really impressed with our work for the little time that we have in the field! The Lord is really blessing us and it’s been amazing to see!

Besides that, this Monday was the day of gauchos!! It would have been the last day of gauchos that I would have seen here in the Sul of brazil… but it wasn’t my p-day, so we ended up spending the day here in the office working and I didn’t see it but whatever…. Got to do what you got to do.

Also we got an elder from a different mission. His name is elder Weiss and he is Brazilian. And lives pretty dang close to our mission. He was in the mission Fortaleza or something like that. And he was actually comps with an elder Parker Stocking hahaha funny huh. So we had some good stories to tell!

So anyway the work here in the office is going normal, and in the field is going ok too. We have a lot of investigators but because of the new rule of no baptizing anyone individual under the age of 18 without a family, and with the family that we have (but they have to marry first) we have a lot of people that love church but its going to be a long process for everyone! The future missionaries in this area are going to love these amazing families.

It’s amazing how the Lord puts people in our road, and helps us know how to teach them and stuff. I had a great experience the other day. We have been teaching a mom and a daughter ever since I got together with Felipe, and they have gone to church ever since the first visit. They love the church and say they can’t find one flaw… (Well weird huh. because there isn’t one… it’s absolutely perfect, because its not a church created by men, it’s the church of the Lord). The only thing that she doesn’t understand is that she needs to be baptized again…. She can’t accept that her baptism that she had wasn’t valid in the eyes of the Lord; she was baptized in some little church, and by a woman of all things hahahahahahahaha… (Sorry but when she told me this I started to laugh hahahaha, I haven’t ever heard of this before… good thing that we have already met and made a friendship and I don’t think she saw me laugh which was good)… But she just doesn’t get the whole priesthood and authority of God aspect. Actually she knows it but I just think she doesn’t want to accept it…

So anyway we are out of ideas to try and help her so I did a little prayer and a fast for help. And the Lord answered the very next day it was amazing!! He just didn’t show me but he showed Felipe too. We studied the same thing, Alma 5, and decided that that’s what she needed to hear. So anyway, we ended up teaching and we marked her date for the 9^th !!! So I am hoping that everything will go great and will continue! But once again the Lord has answered my prayers!!! It’s incredible!

The Lord with never leave us alone, never. Whenever we need his help he is there. The only thing we have to do is allow him to have part of our life and He will guide us.

I'm out of time but I love you all so much and thanks for everything!! Big hug and kiss to all

Love you all

Elder Wiscomb

Picnic on the hike

The view from the top

The beginning to the hiking

Week 58 September 18, 2010

Hello family!!! How is everything doing on this Sunday afternoon? So sorry, I realize that I am writing again on Saturday but my comp had to do his training this time yesterday ha-ha which stinks for him ha, but it looks like this next week we are going to have p-day on Friday so just remember. Sorry this is super confusing for us too. Ha

But this morning was super awesome! We (me and Feleipe) we decided to do something different and we wanted to climb a mountain or something, so we always heard of people going up to the big antanas and there is an awesome view. So we just decided to walk there and see what we find. So we end up going and we walk and walk and ask for directions and we walk more and more and we start get to a fence that says "do not enter" ha-ha. We ask the neighbor if that was the way. And he said yes so we just keep going. Decide to jump the fence and start walking on this abandoned trail, going to the top of a mountain hahaha. Well we walk and walk and then we start to have to really climb and stuff ha, well it was quite the hour and a half clime up the mountain but it was worth it… the whole trip took about 5 hours… and then we get to the top…

When we got to the top we saw anther road it looked like it was a road for the care and about 15 minutes later a man on a bike comes up with a bike and we asked if a car would make it up and he said for sure. So we decided to call President and see if he and sister would like to come up and see this amazing view. President said as much as he would like to he had to run to an emergency meeting but sister wasn’t doing anything so she came up and we did a little picnic up at the top and then we messed around a bit! It was quite the day!!!

So that was today but because of this last week we have been getting really behind in the work in the field. The office work and figuring some things out their, really is hurting us in the field and we had a good teaching pool but we did a huge cut with our investigators because non were progressing they just love the presence of us in their house. This is kind of frustrating. But this last week we ended up working really hard and we taught 19 lessons which is way good for only having 2 or 3 hours in the field every night…. The most lesson that have ever been taught in this area is 20, and we made a goal to break that week after week.

We actually had some cool experiences these last couple days. Silvo, the man that we taught and baptized gave us a ride home one night from a lesson and he said something that I will never forget. He looks at us with tears in his eyes and he says, “I regret getting baptized….” And we get a little scared like. What going on… but then her further says? “I regret getting baptized so late. Now I don’t have a way to serve a mission, I feel it's my responsibility to spread the gospel know.” well we ended up teaching him about missions for married couples and he said that it's something he plans to do in the future if he has the means… which is amazing!!

Also the other night we were knocking on some street where I have never been it's sooooooo far away from everything ha-ha. Actually I think it's in the areas of some other elders but they wouldn’t ever go their because it s so far up I the mountains. And we found a boy and a dad that were really interested in our first message about Christ… long story short we ended up teaching and he said that he would always be in the house at night so we didn’t even mark another night to go back we just left it at that….

So 2 nights ago we were up in that area again and we just decided to pass by to see if we could share with them the 2 lesson. It's so far so we aren’t ever there and when we passed by it looked like they had visitors in their house so we were just …" lets just pass the house and not interrupt this." But then we passed and we looked at each other and we said both at the same time were like "actually lets go back"… anyway we ended up teaching and it was a lesson that was a little difficult. We had people standing up and sitting down and leaving and coming and it just wasn’t the right atmosphere to teach the lesson… but the wife of this man and this young boy got home right at the end of the lesson when we were talking about Joseph Smith and she heard everything and understood that the Church of Christ was restored and we have it in our day. And she asked us when church was, and we told her and invited her to come and promised that it would be the best decision that she would ever make in her life, and before we could say anything else she said. “I'll go!! I don’t know about anyone else but I'll go, you guys will come and get me”

So we are going to go to here house here in a little bit and see what happens be praying!!

So family I love you so much I just want to say that this Church is true! Thanks for everything that you guys do for me! And for all the updates and it really calms my soul to know that all is well back home!!! Love you all with all my heart and thanks again!! Big hug and kiss for everyone and always know that I am here for you all!!!

Elder Wiscomb

Baptism of Silvio

Baptism of Silvio

Week 57 September 10, 2010

Hello family!! So this week I really have zero time to write, oh man! But first off thanks so much for the wonderful emails! I'm so happy to hear from all you and that everything is just great!

So what happen here in the mission this week! We entered into the water again! It was amazing a night to remember!!! The spirit and the happiness, that was in the chapel that night was incredible! Seriously! And after, something amazing happened... Silvio pulled me over to the side and started to cry, thanking me for helping him find the road of Christ. What an experience. To be honest I was shocked and a little without words but I just told him that as missionaries we just present the information, it was him that found the road and him that decided to accept it... and I further said to never forget these feelings and this happiness that he is feeling right now! But what a great day!!

Other than that, we had transfers and mission tour, which I am soooooooo happy its over... we didn’t have much time to work the field and it did disappoint me a little because sometimes here in the office I don’t feel much like a missionary... which is super, super difficult... but we have a great mission tour. We talked about disobedience and the rules. One of my favorite subjects ha-ha. It was great!

Other than that, to be honest the week passed by sooooo fast I don’t even know where it went...

An experience last night is that we were teaching this mom and daughter and there just happened to be a women that was there that night just because she thought that she should be there... we invited her to listen to the message as well and we were practically done with the message. We decided to teach about the ministry of Christ again. So by the end she was crying and she further said that she was a member and has been for a long time. That she was married in the temple and has her partial blessing and everything and she didn’t know why she needed to be at that house that night but when we showed up she figured out why. We taught and she accepted to go to church this week!! Something big happened that made her go inactive but she is going to come back! How awesome is that!! It was amazing!

Ahhh to be honest I'm out of time. Sorry this is so short but I just want to know that love you all! This church is true and it is never too late to come to know Christ or to return partake of the blessing again!! The only thing you need to remember is that the lord is always saying, "Come unto me".

Love you all so much!

Thanks again!!

Love

Elder Wiscomb

Bachelorette Party

Week 56 September 3, 2010

Hello family! Happy Memorial Day (I think that’s what it is ha-ha). But it sounds like everyone is just great and the big old Utes had a great opening starter ha-ha. I realize that I'm writing once again on Saturday but something came up again yesterday and we had to go to the office and work again... sorry but next week I will be writing on FRIDAY. Well that is what we are planning... I don’t think that things will get in the way this time.... but who knows

So you guys are all going up to Sun Valley how awesome is that going to be! I love going up there, it’s always the best! Especially during the car show and everything. I hope that you guys have a great trip up and back! Drive safely ok!

So this week starting out has been pretty crazy. We have been dong a lot of stuff. So this next week some things are going to happen. We are going to have the mission tour where a member of the presidency of the area is going to be here which should be pretty cool. Also its transfers. (Which I find out that I will be here again, and I'm not even training yet… mixed feelings about it but whatever), also we have to prepare for the people leaving and the American’s and Brazilian’s that are coming. So our plate has been pretty fun this last week.

I swear that the weeks are flying. I’m not even seeing the time anymore… here in a week or so I will already have a year and one month in the mission I cant believe it. It something super sad!

So anyway this week in the office I didn’t even see the time, and also in the field. But we had something awesome happen! The marriage of Silvo and Nueza. It was such a wonderful day and they were so happy! The night before, the women in our ward threw like a little a party for them, it was suppose to be like a bachelorette party but us missionaries went ha-ha which was pretty funny… but they liked it because they dressed us up like clowns, which was pretty funny. So, yes I did go to my first and probably only bachelorette party here in Brazil and it was quite fun ha-ha.

Tonight will be the big baptism! I’m hoping that we are going to get some investigators there to watch it because it will be a night that is super special! Next week you guys will get all the pics and stuff!

The Church is true!! I know it is and it is a life changing decision! I know with all my heart that it is the true Church of Christ! I love this work and I love you all thanks for everything! Until next week!

Elder Wiscomb

Matthew 16:25-26

Week 55 August 28, 2010

Hello family!! How is everyone doing on this fabulous Saturday! I hope all is well! So just quick I know that I am writing on Saturday again this week, I will have p -day on Friday but we had representatives of the church that came and did a training with the president because of the trade and we had to be there also so it was an all day thing and then we just decided to finish off the day working yesterday and do p-day this today. But next week will be p-day on Friday so don’t forget.

So this week, it had many ups and downs. I will start from the beginning. Saturday last week after I finished writing we decided to do something super awesome. We went paintballing! It was so much fun oh man, ya it was expensive but it was worth it ha-ha. Just for the record too we kicked butt ha-ha. I hope that you guys like the photos.

Also Sunday was amazing too. We had stake conference and we managed to take 9 investigations to that. We were sitting by them and then it was starting to get super, super full and we were right by the entrance, and we were asked to go sit up on the pulpit so we did. Sitting up there was kind of cool, because we got to watch the reactions of our investigators during the talks. All 9 of them absolutely loved the stake conference, and a women that we are teaching, Sellett, at one point during the talk about missionary work and the spirit, she was touched so hard that she started to cry.

We have such a great teaching pool right now. Our Heavenly Father is blessing us so much. The only thing that is a little difficult now is trying to find time to teach them all. But we have some dates marked which is good, we would have had some this week (tomorrow) but this old women isn’t able to let go of coffee, it’s something that she has drunk her entire life and it’s just a little difficult. But I have no doubt that the Lord will help her this week to let it go and be baptized on the 4^th. It’s something so simple, it just requires a little force and will that’s all. So we are helping her!

We are also going to have another marriage here too, on the 30! Monday! . Silva and Neuza, those people that I have talked about so much are going to get married, then on Saturday the 4^th they are going to get baptized!! It’s going to be awesome! Aw I’m so happy for them! They are so ready! These people are the most prepared that I have seen here in the mission field! I would like to tell you about him a little bit!

This man Silvio he is about 40 years old now, from the age of 24-33 he was a Jehovah Witness, ya good start huh ha-ha, but then he had a huge fall and became a drug addict… he was addicted to all types… cigarettes, marijuana, pills, crack, coke, and many, many other types, but I believe during this time he was still doing the work for the Jehovah Witnesses. He received missionaries many, many times just to fight with them (and a long story short) the powerful witness of the spirit in the work of us missionaries, and him being willing after many, many visits to open his heart just a little bit and feel the testifying of the spirit to him was all too strong to neglect! Have you ever heard about an investigator that carries around passing cards… that’s calls us to go on visits with us, that hands out reverences like none other, that has such a strong testimony that the wants to tell everyone about it, that already pays tithing and goes to priesthood meeting alone! And many other things! His baptism is going to be something sooooo important for him! It’s going to be an amazing day!

So the work is going just great! But this week I did something kind of stupid!

So for this past year I have been sending you guy’s sooo many photos…. Every week I send you most of the photos that I take throughout the week (some things I didn’t because I wanted to wait after the 2 years to sit down with you guys and explain what’s going on)… well know I know why I felt like I should send most of the pictures… the other day I was messing with my camera and I erased about 800 photos that I have taken here in Santa Maria… yaaaaaaaa I’m super, super sad. I called a bishop that works with these stuff to see if there is any way to save it and he said that their could be a way but it would cost about 80-200 reis so about a hundred dollars…. Anyway I'm super sad but I'm not going to pay for it… I figure that they are just photos, ill only have them for this life anyway. And you guys have some so I hope that you guys are saving everything as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So that was the down point of the week, but whatever I’m already over it!

But ya what a great week! Getting ready for the mission tour also along with transfers not next week but the next and we are going to have the president of the area of Brazil come here who actually was the mission president here some 8 years ago or something like that. So it should be a hectic 14 days which means they will pass by even faster... kind of sad!

But the mission what a great, great gift that we have in our life! We as young men and women have this wonderful chance to serve the Lord our God! But where does it all start. Why and how do we gain this desire to do so!! I think it all starts if we believe in Christ and our Heavenly Father, and then we have to gain a testimony about the restoration of the only true church here on the face of the Earth through the prophet Joseph Smith that is stated in the fist section of D and C! Then we will understand that it’s something that we don’t have to do nothing is that we have to do it its we should and in all we need to do it if we REALLY understand the importance of all this! I'm so grateful for everything! I'm so great for my eternal family and for this work and for the love of God in our life!

Love you all so much!! Have a great week and know that you all are always in my prayers!

Elder Wiscomb

P.S. usually I have a scripture but this week I will send a song... it’s my favorite song in the world. Just listen and that’s how I think too...

Lunch today...20 min ago

Baptism of Alana

Baking Lemon Bars for the baptism

Week 54 August 21, 2010

Hello family how is everyone doing? It sounds like you are all amazing and that you guys had a great week!

BEFORE I START WITH ANYTHING MY P- DAY HAS CHNAGED!! IT’S NOW ON FRIDAY. President decided to give us the entire day to work on Saturday! What a blessing, its such a crucial day to invite everyone to church and stuff! I’m so happy for this so don’t forget everyone!!!

Well this week went by super fast. I don’t even know where it went. We have been working very hard, both in and outside the office and we are seeing the results! If everything goes according to plans we are going to have some baptisms coming up in the future which will be great!

Something crazy happened this week. As you all know Elder Muller isn’t the financial secretary any more, so he was just serving in the area for the mean time training a new missionary that just got here. Then president called him on Monday morning and said pack your bags you and Elder Jones, you both are going to Cruz Alta. so they left at 1 in the morning and then we were surprised when president brought one person here to this area… so two left and one came…

Right now there are three people living in our house me, Elder Felipe and Faccina. Its super, super fun but as you could guess when you have more than two people in the house its super hard to keep all the rules… just the little ones. Like going to bed on time… studying on time… leaving on time… just the little things and it provides a little bit more force every day… which is good I'm liking it… but I think that the others are getting a little bit bothered with me because I'm trying to do everything “right” ha-ha but whatever I don’t really care.

So with our teaching pool… we have a huge teaching pool, which is nice! And yesterday we filled the baptismal font! Ha-ha ya we had a baptism yesterday of a 17 year old girl name Alana which was awesome! She is so ready and will be a great member! She is super funny because she just could not decide out of us who she wanted to baptize her, she’s so sweet she didn’t want to make one of us feel bad ha-ha. People don’t get it that this is the last thing that is important to us! But she was so thrilled to see Elder Faccina who came the other day because then she would not have to make one of us two sad ha-ha.

And the next week and the next week if all goes according to plan we will have a couple more baptisms too. We have made a pretty high goal for these next couple transfers… but with faith anything is possible!

I had a crazy experience this week something that just shows that we have to following our promptings in our heart… so this week we were where knocking on doors and we were excepted by this old lady and we walked in and we saw the son of a man that we are teaching and long story short we taught there and it was great and then we left and I felt like I should call this man Claudio! The dad of the son that I saw at the lesson…. Anyway long story short I thought I should call him but I didn’t do it right in the hour. But we were on our way pretty much running to another appt… with a man name Claudiomir… (I hope everyone is following.) Anyway I was going through my phone and I was going to advise Claudiomir that we were coming and would be a little late but I accidentally called Claudio. That man I thought felt like I needed to call. I noticed that I was calling Claudo and not Claudiomir and so I hung-up but it had already rang about 5 times. And 30 seconds later I get a call back from Claudio…

So Claudio calls me super, super excited for some reason. This guy is a man we have been teaching forever but he isn’t married and he wasn’t able to make the choice to marry or not… but when he calls and the first ting he says…. Elder Wiscomb, what can I do to get the birth certificates. How do we do that.”? He was so excited and so we are going to start another process of marriage next week!

The way that people are touched when they really look to rely on our Heavenly Father to receive the confirmations that all of this is true is so strong! Is something that an individual isn’t able to deny! The gospel is so true, and it does have the power to change and modify the lives of anyone, on a whole different scale! It’s like that quote that says that God doesn’t see us as mortal humans but as the perfect resurrected beings that we are capable of being. After we receive the confirmation that the gospel is true through the Holy Ghost our minds are opened a loosened a little bit more and we can imagine what it would be like, what it would really be like to return and live with our Heavenly Father and our savior Jesus Cristo as perfect resurrected beings, living in eternal happiness!

I’m so grateful for the hand of the Lord in this work! It’s so visible because this truly is the Lord’s gospel and His church! And I'm so grateful to be His servant in this time of my life!

I love you all so much! Always know I'm here for all of you if anyone needs anything!

Loves and kisses!

Elder Wiscomb

D and C 130:20-21

P.S. guess what I'm going to do right now hahahahaha we are going to play paintball!!! I’m so stoked its going to be awesome!!! I can’t wait t o shoot people hahahah love you all!